Globe-Gazette from Mason City, Iowa • Page 13

Open house planned at new fertilizer plant at Rockwell By CHUCK WALK Globe-Gazette Farm Editor ROCKWELL An open house to celebrate the completion of the first cooperatively owned fertilizer blending and mixing plant in North Iowa will be held here Sept. 9, according to Stan Tomke, manager of the Rockwell Farmers Cooperative So- 'ciety, owner of the new plant. The open house will run from .10 a.m. to 4 p.m. with orchids being presented to the first 300 women and special prizes to the first 300 men.

The open house will include tours of the new plant and free refreshments. A free soil testing service also will be available to farmers attending the open house. Soil samples will be taken by members of the Rockwell Chapter of the Future Farmers of America for testing at the soil laboratory at Iowa State. Feature of however, will the open house, be the unveiling of the new fertilizer blending and mixing plant. Tomke says the plant incorporates the newest system of blending dry fer- tilizers.

This includes a liquid aldrin attachment which is used to put the liquid into the fertilizer to kill root worm. The plant itself is 24 by 40 feet with an 18-foot covered driveway attached. Also attached is a 36 by 140-foot warehouse. By having the warehouse attached, it will be a simple matter to bag and store finished products until needed, Tomke pointed out. So modern is the blending operation that one man can completely handle it.

Five basic fertilizer ingredients can be mixed at one time with only the push of' a button needed for operation. Another feature of the plant's operation, Tomke explained, is the fact that no filler material will be used to make up weight differences. Instead of the lime filler used in some blending and mixing plants; thei Rockwell plant will use 0-20-0. "We can now meet the fertilizer requirements of the farmers of the area," Tomke out. The advantages of the plant for area farmers will be lower costs, pure analysis and soluble materials.

The services of the plant will be available to nonmembers of the Rockwell Cooperative Society, Tomke added. The services of the plant also could be expanded, over a larger area, Tomke continued. Sever a other elevators in the North Iowa area have expressed inter est in taking advantage of thi products to be manufactured. The plant, which took six weeks to build, is constructed of aluminum siding. It has a capacity of 750 tons.

It is cap able of blending and mixing 2C tons of fertilizer an hour. So simple is the blending operation that the entire process is run by a horse power motor. 'Because of the highly season al fertilizer demand, the plan will operate only about two months in the spring and fall. Another feature of the opera tioa is a fertilizer spreader which will be made available to farmers who purchase their fer tilizer at the plant. This four ton capacity spreader throws the fertilizer on the field over a 45-foot wide area.

Cerro Gordo 4-H'ers win 20 ribbons at State Fair Entries from Cerro Gordo County in the 4-H department of the Iowa State Fair received 10 blue ribbons, six -red ribbons and two white ribbons in competition this year, according to Robert Butler, county extension assistant. Seven of the blue ribbons came in the home economics division of the fair-and the other three came in the agricultural demonstration division. Blue ribbon winners in the home economics 'division were Delores Dietrich, dropped cookies and plain cake; Linda Ficken angel food cake; Karla Mendell, clover leaf Emmert, rolled rolls; Deanna cookies; Linda Folkama, three for a meal, and Pani demonstration. Saug, science Red ribbons in the home economics show were awarded to Judy Dougan, quick bread; Kathleen Diddy, yeast bread; Joanne Huntbach, jelly; and Margaret Webster, canned to matoes. Miss Diddy also re ceived a white ribbon for he table setting and Linda Fessler received a white ribbon for her canned fruits vegetables In the agricultural demon stration division, blue ribboni were awarded- to the team Harold Pruin and Jim Anderegg for their demonstration, "One Man Hitch." Another blue rib bon was awarded to Linda Se vere, Rockwell, for her plan Collection and a third.blue rib bon went to Ron Hansen, Mason City, for his entomology project Miss Severe's and Hansen's projects were presented on a special program over WOI-TV Ames.

Red ribbons in the demonstra tion division went to the team of Daryl Hindman, Kuhlers both of and David Meservey and to a wood-working projec showed by DeWayne Schneider man, Thornton. North Iowa deaths Howard County employe dies at Cresco CRESCO Bernard Costello, 70, a maintenance worker for Howard County, died Wednesday at the hospital here. Funeral services will be Saturday at 9:30 a. m. at St.

Joseph Catholic Church here with burial in Calvary Cemetery. The Rosary will be said Friday at 8:30 p.m. at Bradley Funeral Home. Surviving are his wife, Anna; three sons, John, Linden, Bernard Long Beach, James, Albuquerque, N. a daughter, Mrs.

Norman Melver, Cresco; seven grandchildren, a brother and four sisters. Iowa Falls rites for Mrs. Oliver IOWA FALLS-- Funeral services for Mrs. Eldon (Margaret) Oliver, 45, who died at Ellsworth Municipal Hospital Wednesday, will be at 2 p. m.

Saturday at the Linn a Chapel. Burial will be at Union Cemetery. Survivors include her; husband, two daughters, Mrs. Duane (Marjorie) Duit, Mrs. Steven (Jo Marie) Whitman.

both of Iowa Falls; a sister, Mrs. Peter (Elizabeth) Powlas, Peru, three grandchildren, a brother, Fred Reynolds, Iowa Falls. Rites at Roseville for John Musil, 80 ROCKFORD--John Musil, 80, died Wednesday at the Cedar Valley Hospital. He had farmed! all his life on the same farm 1 near Roseville. Funeral services! will be Friday at 9:30 a.m.

at St. Mary Catholic Church, Rose-, ville, with burial in the church! cemetery. a Funeral Home, Rockford, is in charge. Surviving' are a sister, Mrs. 'Anna Ewen, Charles City, a nephew and five nieces.

COURTHOUSE CLOSED GARNER Hancock County Auditor Arthur Ross announces all offices will be closed at the Hancock Courthouse Monday in the annual observance of Labor Day. The present schedule of office hours will be continued through September. Offices presently arc open from 7:30 a. m. to 4 p.

m. Mon- through Friday and closed Saturdays. Walter Eldridge succumbs to heart attack IOWA FALLS--Funeral serv ices for Walter Eldridge, 31 who died of a heart attack at his home near Iowa Falls Tuesday evening, will be at 2 p. m. Friday at the First Methodist Church.

Burial will be at Union Cemetery. The Anderson Home for Funerals is in charge of arrangements. Survivors include iiis widow, Dorothy, three children, Ruth, Lynn, Kay, lis parents, Mr. and Mrs. H.

V. Eldridge; a brother, Dale, all of Iowa Falls. Steward at County Home dies at 66; Rites pending GARNER--Earl P. Weir, 66, died Wednesday at a Mason City lOspital. He had been steward at the Hancock County Home since 1954 and herdsman there several years before that.

Funeral arrangements at the Bohn Funeral Home are pending the arrival of his daughter from California. JET I COURSE--Airman 3.c. John L. Cink, son Mr. and Mrs.

Edward L. Cink, Woden, was graduated from the jet i mechanic course at Sheppard AFB, Texas. Airman Cink was graduated from Woden Crystal Lake Community High School in Woden. He enlisted March 15 through the Mason City recruiting office. Women's Guild plans retreat at Pilot Knob GARNER--The Zion Evangel- cal and Reformed Women's Guild will hold a retreat at Pilot State Park Friday.

Mem- jers are to meet at the church at 9:45 a.m. Transportation will be provided if necessary. The afternoon program will close at 3. There will be a potluck dinner a't noon. Coffee and rolls will be by the committee.

Decor ah rites for accident victim DECORAH--Peter Allan Torvik, 37, was killed Tuesday night an accident near Iowa City. uneral services will be Friday at 2 p.m. at the First Lutheran hurch. Burial will be in Lu- heran Cemetery with Olson i'jelstul a Home in Surviving are his wife four children. He was one the partners of Torvik Contraction Co.

AUXILIARY TO MEET CHAPIN--The American Leion Auxiliary will meet in the Hall at Chapin Thursay evening Sept. 7. This is a hange of meeting date. LENABELLE BOCK Mrs. Bock to attend convention GARNER Mrs.

Bock, Garner, state representative, will attend the 20th annual meeting of the National Order of Legislative Women convening at Hotel Wentworth-by-the-Sea, Portsmouth, N. Sept. 19-22. A special invitation was extended to Mrs. Bock by a former Iowa legislator, Hon.

Katherine Clancy Metz, now of Chicago, formerly of Lamoni. The program includes a discourse by the FBI, a workable Civil Defense program, a problem session on delinquency, the disturbed child and a more conservative use of water. The tax problem will also be discussed. Members will be asked to respond with a brief comment on "The Tax Problem of My State." Members will be given a tour of the Pease Air Force Base as well as historical points of interest in the area. Gov.

Wesley Powell of New Hampshire will be the banquet speaker. Mr. and Mrs. Bock will Spend several at Boston visiting their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.

Robert Lemire before returning to their home here. 693 ENROLLED NORA SPRINGS--Supt. J. H. Watson has announced a total of 693 students enrolled hi the Nora Springs-Rock Falls Community School.

Of that number, 183 are in high grades. school and 510 in the An estimated six i i American school children have uncorrected visual defects. Speech, hearing tests set in Hancock County GARNER--The speech of all public school children in Hancock County in grade 3 and the hearing of all public school children in grades 3, 6 and 9 will be screened Sept. 6, 7, 8 and 11, according to an announcement by Hancock County t. Charles S.

Whitney. Ed Dansdil, elementary consultant in Hancock County and Robert Kraft, speech therapist in Winnebago County, will give the initial screening tests. Lewis Bishop, speech therapist in Kossuth County, will conduct a speech screening and do some refined hearing testing. James Steffen, Hancock County speech therapist, will conduct speech screening and also do some refined hearing tests as time permits. The schedule for individual schools is: Sept.

6, Kanawha (Wednesday a.m.; 6. Klemme, (Wednesday p.m.); Sept. 7, Woden-Crystal Lake (Thursday a.m.); Sept, 7, Cor with-Wesley (Thursday p.m.); Sept. 8, Britt; and Sept. 77, Gar "ner-Hayfield.

This program is directed by the Hancock County Superinten Contracts awarded for schools IOWA FALLS--Farm Bureau Service has been awarded the contract for gasoline used by the Iowa a Community School system on a bid of 4.99 cents less than the posted tank wagon price at time of delivery The contract for fuel oil was awarded to Mobile Oil with Kenneth Warner agent, on a bic of 3.61 cents below the posted tank wagon price at the time of delivery. The coal contract wa: given to Miller Lumber Co. on a bid -of $10.77 a ton. The two Iowa Falls dairies, Perfection and Evergreen, submitted identical bids on milk and the contract was divided between them. Perfection will furnish milk for the Junior High and West Grade School cafeterias and mid-morning milk at Julia O'Neil and West Grade Schools.

Evergreen Dairy will supply milk for the Ellsworth College and.Central cafeterias and mid morning milk for Central anc Blanche Stoddard Schools. Postmaster General okays new post office for Nashua NASHUA Plans to build a new post office in Nashua were announced this week by Postmaster General J. Edward Day. The new building, Day said, vill implement President Kennedy's program to stimulate the economy and at the same time carry out the post office department's objective of more efficient postal service a im 3roved working conditions for ostal employes. The President's accelerated irogram, the Postmaster Genral pointed out, calls for the onstruclion and modernization postal facilities throughout he nation, with private indus- ry investing the capital to build new facilities for lease to the Department this year.

Contingent upon the funds avail- ble, the post office department going ahead with the modern- zation of postal space in fed- ral buildings. The building in Nashua will le on the northeast corner of the intersection of Main a Lexington Streets. Preliminary plans call for 2,943 square feet of floor space with an over-all ground area of 12,936 square feet. The Postmaster General said the building will be constructed under the department's m- mercial leasing program. The department's capital investment, Day said, will be limited substantially to postal equipment.

The building will remain under private ownership. The owner will pay local real estate taxes. Plans and specifications for the new building, as well as bidding forms and other pertinent data, will be made available to prospective bidders at an early date. The post office department will advertise for bids. The site option will be transferred to the successful bidder, who will purchase the land, construct the building and lease it to the department on a long lease term basis.

COLOR ADO PEACHIS have arrived in your market dent and James Steffen, county speech and hearing therapist, with the cooperation local school superintendents. Where hearing or speech correction is necessary further tests will be made. In case of hearing impairment medical referral will be made. Last year 154 children received either direct or indirect speech therapy Campaign set for 4-H camp GARNER--Hancock County's fund raising campaign for the state 4-H camp at Madrid will be set in motion. Tuesday evening.

W. Earl Hall, editor of the Mason City Globe-Gazette, will be the speaker at the kickoff meeting at the Britt High School, Tuesday at 8 p.m. Workers, township captains and the county central commit tee are prepared to launch the campaign in the county. Start ing Sept. 6, workers will contact every farm home in the county during the week-long drive in an attempt to reach the goal of $2,000.

Township captains appointed a Amsterdam Township: Clarence Anderson; Avery, Mrs. Roy Arnold; Bingham, Mrs. John Brunsen; Boone, Ernest Eliason; Britt, Wayne Dudgeon; Concord, Ed Furness; Crystal, Charles Laughlin; Ell, Chet Renner; Ellington, Arno Olson; Erin, Mrs. Harold Weiland; Garfield, Mrs. Ed Formanek; Liberty, Mrs.

Leo Jass; Madi- Mrs. Twin Lyle Jefson; Orthel, Manus DeWaard; and Lake, Ole G. Eliason. Spillville woman touring Europe with Postmasters SPILLVILLE Mayme Dvorak is on the Postmasters' League European tour. On the Belgium Airlines jet plane they will arrive at Brussels, Sept.

3. After touring in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Monaco, Italy and France, they will return to the states the latter part of September. Hospitalized after sawing accident GARNER Martin Rogness, Miller, is hospitalized following a freak accident here. A piece of lumber he was sawing sheared off the power saw and was driven into his abdomen. He is employed by the Farmers Co-op Society lumber yard.

He is reported in fair condition at a Mason City hospital. tf SCHOOL OF BANKING CHARLES CITY--Victor Meyer of the Commercial Savings Bank, Charles City, was recently graduated from School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin. He was one of 399 men from 35 states to be graduated. IN Gerald Knoll, son of Mrs. Gladys Knoll, Rockwell, has left for Goose Bay, Labrador, after spending a leave at home.

He will complete his service in the U.S. Air Force in 15 months. Aug. 31, mi I) Globe-Gazette, Mason City, la. Little Theater memberships now on sale GARNER--Little Theater memberships went on sale in Hancock County this week according to an announcement by Mrs.

Ed Bock, Garner, and Mrs. Gerald Larson, Britt, co-cairmen in the current membership campaign. 'Local salesmen appointed in the towns and communities include Mrs. Ed Dansdil, Mrs. a Stole, Mrs.

Gordon Haes and Mrs. Bock for Garner; Al Barz for Klernme; Mrs. Emil Christensen, Hayfield; Mrs. Pauline Kuhlman, Duncan; Mrs. Galen Beulah Green, Wesley; Mrs.

Martin Smith, Woden; Mrs. Gerald Larson, Britt, and Mrs. Russell Kanawha. The first Russian attempt to capture Constantinople was in 860 when a Russian fleet unsuccessfully raided the city. COX'S BAKERY 30 Second Street N.

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